Articles from the September 10, 2020 edition
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COVID creates a shortage, but expands other opportunities
POMEROY-Garfield County Hospital District (GCHD) is experiencing a Certified Nursing Assistants (CNA) shortage, an outcome of the education shutdown due to COVID-19 restrictions. It was expressed at the GCHD Board meeting September 1; they are...
Broadband back on track
POMEROY––Zero DB, new contractors for the construction of the Port of Garfield’s broadband project, have begun work and expect to have it completed by early December, 2020, reported Diana Ruchert, Port Director, at the meeting of the Port’s Board o...
Steady Vigil
Garfield County Courthouse's stoic Civil War bronze statue keeps steady vigil over downtown Pomeroy, in front of the historic 1901 courthouse. The Grand Army of the Republic placed a statue in 1904,...
Overnight Fair camping still in discussion
POMEROY–The Garfield County Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) in final discussions over overnight camping for the restructured Garfield County Fair plan as of their meeting on August 31. The B...
Rattlesnake Fire wraps up Sept. 1
POMEROY––Fire lines were deemed completed and the majority of crews were working their way out of the 486-acre Rattlesnake Fire as of September 1, reported the USFS Incident Management Team working the fire located twenty miles south of Pomeroy and t...
Lovgren promoted to Columbia Pulp-Lyons Ferry Plant Manager
STARBUCK–Kyler Lovgren has been selected as Plant Manager at Lyons Ferry for Columbia Pulp, LLC. In this new role he will lead the operations at that location. He will also be responsible in the e...
On the Edge of Common Sense
Catching avocado rustlers is sort of a cross between the Covid virus, wildfires, exchange students bearing addictive goodies and coon hunting. “All right, come down outta that tree and drop that a...
Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits
Ten Years Ago September 8, 2010 Elton Brown was honored by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife earlier this summer for decades of volunteer service to hunter and shooting education. Brown volunteered as a Washington Hunter Education progra...
A Teen's Take
POMEROY–People almost never fully agree on one thing, and it’s usually the minor, irrelevant thing people get upset about. Why is that? Why do we take the time to yell and bicker with each other whe...
